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Administrative Office, Island # 3, Ellis Island |
Administrative Quarters, Island # 3, Ellis Island |
Blue Room With Bed Frame, Island # 2, Ellis Island |
Corridor # 9, Island # 3, Ellis Island |
Green Room, Island # 2, Ellis Island |
Nurse's Quarters - Hallway, Island # 3, Ellis Island |
Tuberculosis Ward, Island # 3, Ellis Island |
Window Study, Recreation Room (Sunset), Island # 3, Ellis Island |
Woman's Ward, Island # 3, Ellis Island |
Curved Corridor, Island No. 3, Ellis Island 1998 |
Snowy Corridor, Ellis Island |
Sink with snowy courtyard, Ellis Island |
Window study, Sunset |
Wall study with light switch |
Room study with broom, Ellis Island |
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In the southern shadows of Ellis Island's Great Hall, forgotten by history and ill-equipped in its battle with nature, I came upon the ruins of a vast hospital: the contagious-disease wards and isolation rooms for the people whose spirits carried them across oceans but whose bodies failed them, just inches from Paradise. What I was obsessed to do, almost as if I was chosen to do it, was document the light and the energy and living spirit of this place. I added no light of my own, nor any artifice of the photographic craft. I wasn't simply interested in graphics born from the patina of ruin. I just wanted to record the place as I found it." Stephen Wilkes Book available: Ghosts of Freedom: Ellis Island" by Stephen Wilkes Please click here to see the full collection |
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Man and lake, China, 2006 |
China, 2006 |
China, 2006 |
Farm house before demolition, China, 2006 |
Farm house after demolition, China, 2006 |
China, 2007 |
China, 2007 |
Gulin Mountains, China |
Snowy bridge and mountain, China |
Guilin, China |
Rice Paddies, China |
Grape Sheds, Turpan, China, 2008 |
Rooftops, Old Section near new construction,Beijing, China |
Interior of Skyscraper Tower, Shanghai |
Pudong, China, at night |
National Centre for the Performing Arts,"The Egg", Beijing, China, 2008 |
"The Bird's Nest", Beijing, China, 2008 |
Artspace, China,2007 |
Construction, Shanghai, 2005 |
Data Center,Olympic Village,Beijing, China,2008 |
Olympic Village Construction, China, 2008 |
Construction Workers, Beijing, China,2008 |
Steel Cables, Three Gorges Dam, Yangtze River in Sandouping, Yichang, Humei, China, 2008 |
Backside of Three Gorges Dam, Yangtze River in Sandouping, Yichang, Humei, China, 2008 |
Three Gorges Dam Lock, Sandouping, Yichang, Humei, China, 2008 |
Three Gorges Dam at Yangtze River, Jui Li village, Sandouping, Yichang, Humei, China, 2008 |
Lone Factory Worker, China, 2005 |
Broad Group Factory, China |
China, 2005 |
China, 2005 |
Lone Tree, Guilin, China |
Red Bag, China |
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Bethlehem Steel |
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Bethlehem Steel |
Bethlehem Steel |
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Executive Offices, Bethlehem Steel |
Huge Toolshed, Bethlehem Steel |
Wall Study, Bethlehem Steel |
Coke Ovens, Bethlehem Steel |
Shadow Arches, Blast Furnace, Bethlehem Steel |
Gas blowing Engine House, Bethlehem Steel |
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"I photographed the decay of a dinosaur. It was a vast sculpture of wreckage in deafening silence, about to vanish into memory. The dinosaur was a massive disintegrating monument to America's industrial civilization. Bethlehem Steel. Here, in the scorching glow of Bessemer furnaces, the steel was forged to build the Empire State building. To float above the Pacific in the Golden Gate Bridge, and the Hudson, in a bridge they named for George Washington. In those furnaces banked along the Lehigh River, the steel was made for guns on battleships in two World Wars, and if the I-beams of Bethlehem Steel were removed from New York City, 80% of its skyscrapers would fall. A colossal monument to America's industrial age." Stephen Wilkes |
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In Katrina's Wake: TV in sand |
In Katrina's Wake: Fireplace |
In Katrina's Wake: Brother Charles |
In Katrina's Wake: Theater |
In Katrina's Wake: Damaged Car |
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In Katrina's Wake
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Snow Covered Shore |
Alaska Glacier with Climber |
Red Canoe |
The High Line, New York |
Huntington Beach, California |
Eulogy to a dumpscape: Fresh Kills Landfill |
Washington Square, 2009 |
Central Park, Day Into Night, 2010 |
America in Detail |
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